Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné Mini-Skirts, 2023

via ig/@thearchiveislimited I, too, absolutely love imagining a world where Gerhard Richter indirectly approved or gave consent to the Product artist blankablank on Red Bubble, and where apparently no legal forces prevented the on-demand production of this polyester and elastane mini-skirt with the cover of Volume 3 of Richter’s catalogue raisonné, edited by, as the upside down printing on the hem indicates, Dr. Dietmar Elger of the Gerhard Richter Archiv, printed on it. Red Bubble mini skirt rendering, 2023, via thearchiveislimited But alas, we don’t even live in a world where the Product artists can just evade scrutiny by obscuring the name to Gerhards, or, as in the case of Product artist TabathaAnderson, not even mention Richter at all in the Red Bubble listing for the Line Color Rainbow mini-skirt with the cover of Volume 6 printed on it. In this case I have to imagine it wasn’t Richter’s legal forces alone, but his aesthetic forces which objected to the way the print of the…